Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.
Milan KunderaEven in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.
Milan KunderaMankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan KunderaA man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
Milan Kundera